In this episode, I reflect on my experience running for elected office and share key lessons learned from the journey. While the outcome wasn’t a win at the ballot box, the experience reinforced that the work of service never stops.

Before running for office, there are important questions that must be clearly defined and questions I confronted prior to running:

Why – Why are you running, and what qualifies you to serve?

I was already serving my community, and elected office offered a way to broaden my impact. I ran to serve—not for a title or personal gain.

Who – Who will support you, challenge you and vote for you?

I was supported by a small, committed team that stayed focused on purpose rather than political negativity. Strategic relationships built during the campaign strengthened both the effort and our community.

How – How will you run and represent yourself?

Introducing myself to voters required sharing my story—beginning with my grandmother, whose example of service shaped my foundation. I chose to run a positive campaign rooted in integrity, regardless of oppositional, misleading or ugly tactics. I believe the people deserve more- and I do too.

What – What are you truly running for?

Understanding the office and examining whether you are running to give or to achieve personal gain is essential.

When – Is the timing right for you, your family and the people you seek to serve? Running for office requires careful consideration of time and readiness.

This episode is shared for anyone who may one day consider running for office. Public service is about sincerity, integrity, and service to others. And for me, despite the outcome, The Work Continues!

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Well, I am elated to be back at the microphone hosting Nurah Speaks. I know it has been a while so I take this episode ‘Back From Loss’ to catch everyone up with the events of the past several months and what is new with the podcast.

I want to thank everyone who has continued to support me and this project.

Welcome to Episode 257!

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I am elated to be back at the microphone hosting Nurah Speaks. I know it has been a while so I take this episode ‘Back From Loss’ to catch everyone up with the events of the past several months and what is new with the podcast.

I want to thank everyone who has continued to support me and this project. Welcome to Episode 257!

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Black History Month 2025 comes at a time in this nation wherein we need love amongst ourselves more now than ever. But we must advance the notion of Black Love beyond affection and recognize that love is a verb.

Love is doing good and bringing no harm. Love is elevating each other, teaching and encouraging and even correcting each other.

Black Love is more than a slogan or rhetoric on tees and hoodies. It is more than hashtags and raised fists. It is the activity we do in service of our people that promotes a future with promise.

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This episode revisits a discussion about neutrality and our tendency to be noncommittal despite real challenges impacting our communities.

We cannot be on the fence forever being neither this nor that, never having made a commitment or obligating ourselves to one direction or another. Indecisiveness is obstructive to our personal development.

It is time now to be accountable and this comes with settling down to a good choice and solidifying ourselves with other like minded individuals engaged in the good work of creating change.

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After the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, it seems that every liberal leaning media outlet is sounding an alarm of fear and terror with what has occurred and what is to come in the current presidential administration.

However I propose that the panic, fear and terror for what is to come for us is long overdue. We have already been existing with certain vulnerabilities in ways that other groups have not.

And what this podcast and other media sources like CROE TV and Muhammad Speaks Radio has been doing for years is helping us understand what these vulnerabilities are that the black community face and what we can and should be doing about them.

It is not necessary that we wait for the government to secure a future for us-because as we see, depending upon whose ideology is in power, we are simply in an insecure, unstable and frankly unsure condition.

And while our eyes and ears are summoned to the White House, we can overlook what is in front of our faces locally, whether that is public safety concerns, social concerns, concerns with substance abuse, concerns of health disparities, concerns in education, etc.

Let’s calm down! And let’s survey our own people to mine the skills, knowledge, talents and resources to lift our people our of the dependency on others.

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At various points in our lives we are confronted with the decision to choose the exhausting path for truth and justice or the easy path of agreement and compromise. It is at those times we should reflect on what our choices will declare about our character.

In revisiting Dr. King’s ‘But If Not’ sermon featured in the last episode, I am encouraged on my own path for truth and justice, no matter the inconvenience or costs. We should all be willing to stand for truth because, as in the example King cited, we have the biblical illustration of the three thrown into the fiery furnace and what came from holding true to their convictions.

Because they - in the face of their own tormenting death - remained unwavering, not only were they unharmed but enjoyed in such time the presence of the Lord. This account serves as a caution and guide to each of us in such times of decision.

Truth is not alway convenient and compromise is not always righteous. Yet our principles must be incorruptible, believing that the Most High will always be our Companion.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a poignant example of a man standing on faith and principles, regardless of the risks, discomfort and persecution.

In his work of pressing the United States government for civil rights of the nation’s ex-slaves and in his anti-war stance on Vietnam, he made an enemy of the FBI and the U.S. President. Even his companions in the Civil Rights Movement deserted him.

He was a man standing on principle, refusing to sit in spite of threats and public disgrace because he believed he had truth and justice on his side.

Questions that his example compel us to ask ourselves:

What will we stand for?

Will we remain standing in the face of criticism and threat?

What is the cost to our souls, consciousness and freedom if we do not?

The excerpts in this episode is from Dr. King’s speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church November 5, 1967 titled, ‘But If Not’.

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